Is there some kind of history behind the name 'Google' or was it just a random choice?
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No, I trust that you have been on the Internet once or twice in the past decade and are aware of the Google.
What I wanted to talk about today is how Google got its name. You know, that silly made up word that has now taken its rightful place in the Oxford English Dictionary, right after goog (Australian slang for an egg).
Turns out that Google is a misspelling of a real-life mathematical term, googol.
Back sometime in the late 90’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two graduate students at Stanford. They had been working on a search engine and had given it the name BackRub. You know, because their search engine searched through backlinks…right.
Fortunately, they were smart enough to realize that BackRub was the worst tech company name in the history of tech companies, and that they needed to find something a little more appropriate.
During yet another name brainstorming session, their friend Sean, a fellow graduate student, suggested the word googolplex.
Googolplex is the name for 10 to the power of googol. Googol is the name used by mathematicians to reference 10 to the power of 100, or:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That’s 1 plus 100 zeros.
The name googol and googolplex were originally coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner a famous American mathematician. As Milton put it, googolplex was shorthand for a number that was otherwise so large you would have to write “one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired.” Of course, his uncle found this definition to not be quite specific enough, afterall “different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera [a famous boxer of the time] be a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance and could write for longer!” So he gave googolplex the official definition of being 10 to the power of googol, or 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 100.
When Sean suggested googolplex, Larry responded that he liked the smaller term googol, but felt like the term in general was a great fit for what they were trying to do: index an unfathomable number of Internet web pages.
Sean, not realizing googol was spelled with an ol at the end, searched the Internet to see if the domain google.com was available.
Larry liked the new word Sean had accidentally come up with, and voila! Google was named.
Google is derived from GOOGOL.
Googol is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The term (Googol) was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman.
I Just Googled the question and it gave me this Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. and the founders of google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin I Hope That Helps :)
Google is derived from GOOGOL.
Googol is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The term (Googol) was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman.
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